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    What are YOU currently reading? (2)

    Good, innit?
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    Tea or Coffee?

    Tea every time. I quite like coffee, but can live without it, and often do for days or weeks at a time. Tea, though, is essential - made in a warmed pot with freshly-boiled water and loose tea, one teaspoon per mug, brewed for five timed minutes, small amount of milk and one sugar. NOT...
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    Harry Potter - harmless fantasy or the work of satan?

    Deleted, because I was repeating more or less what I said earlier.
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    Book Name Game! (2)

    Shakespeare's bawdy - Eric Partridge
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    Harry Potter book 7: The name game

    Who's nicked my blessings? I had over 1,000 a few hours ago!
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    Book Titles A-Z

    Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas
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    Book Chain

    Why are there two identical games on this forum? Oh well... (the) Latin Master's Story - Merryn Williams
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    Book Name Game! (2)

    Elizabeth Gaskell and the English Provincial Novel - W.A.Craik
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    Authors you've read 5 or more books by

    CSLewis (all the Narnias, all the SciFis, all the popular non-fiction, 'The Screwtape Letters', 'A Preface to 'Paradise Lost'') Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (All the Sherlocks, a fair amount of the other fiction) George Orwell (everything published, I think - 'Nineteen Eighty-four' and 'Animal Farm'...
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    Harry Potter book 7: The name game

    Harry Potter and the very rich author Harry Potter and the very happy publisher Harry Potter and the very cross fundies
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    Harry Potter book 7: The name game

    Harry Potter and the link to the next money-spinning Rowling book series
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    Harry Potter book 7: The name game

    Well, he's in his teens now, so how about: Harry Potter and the adolescent angst Harry Potter and the untidy bedroom Harry Potter and the spots ?
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    What are YOU currently reading? (2)

    'Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell' by Susanna Clarke, a sort of Harry-Potter-for-grown-ups novel, set in Regency times, about two magicians who are rivals, and both want to revive magic in England. Lord Byron and the Duke of Wellington appear as minor characters. Very enjoyable - thoroughly...
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    A word association game (easy blessings people) (8)

    Ugley (Nasty and Ugley are villages on the Herts/Essex border)
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    Game - song link

    Forgive me if this game, or something like it, already exists, but if so it must have fallen into desuetude, because it's not on page 1, so there's no harm in starting another one. Dead simple - name a song (title and artist) that has some connection with the previous song. F'rexample...
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    Anyone else read or reading 'Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell'?

    If so, what do you think of it? I'm in Venice at the moment, with Strange acting - er - strangely. Drawlight has just been dunked and encountered Strange outside a church. I'll've finished it soon. I think it's wonderful. Some excellent characters, both sympathetic and unlikable. Drawlight...